AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 18 August 1937, Page 6

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House “WITHOUT ORDERS.” Romance, and a colourful sidelight on modern commercial aviation, are combined in “Without Orders,” wii— Robert Armstrong and Sally Eilers in the romantic roles and Frances Sage, Charley Grapewin and Vinton Haworth co-featured with them. The picture concludes at the Opera House to-night. Dealing with personal and official problems that beset transport pilots, and combining plenty of thrilling episodes and a stirring climax in its story, the picture revolves around the rivalry of two flyers in work and in attentions to the same girl. "LADY FROM NOWHERE.” Romance, and exciting melodrama provide the backdrop for Mary Astor’s starring debut m the title role or “Lady From Nowhere,” which is screening Thursday only at the -Opera House. Opposite Miss Astor is Charles Quigley, a new screen “find.” Others in the cast are Thurston Hall, Rita La Roy, Victor Kilian and Spencei' Charters. A pretty manicurist is witness to a gangland murder and has to flee for her life. She lands in a small town and is taken in charge by a local reporter. She tells him' she is an heiress who has run away -to escape an unpleasant marriage. Things begin to pop when the gangsters, the real heiress’s father and ue police all converge on the town. “LLOYDS OF LONDON.” NEW ROMANTIC SENSATION. Twentieth Century-Fox, in assigning to Tyrone Power the leading male role in “Lloyds of London,” screen! triumph coming Monday to the Opera House, gave him one of the most coveted characterisations of the year. The opportunity of overnight stardom was a result of his outstanding performances in two previous pictures Tyrone .had received the indispensable training before the footlights. A romantically good-looking young man, just over six feet tall and weighing 155 pounds, he has dark brown eyes, brown hair, an infectious smile and a vital, boyish personality. “Lloyds of London” finds Tyrone in the role of Jonathan Blake, who carves a orilliant career in the great insurance firm whose fortunes he brings to its greatest peak. Jonathan falls in love with Madeleine Carroll, who, with Freddie Bartholomew as the very young Jonathan, is starred. The romance is ill-starred, and it is not until a thrilling climax, culminating in Admiral Lord Nelson’s thrilling victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, that the couple find happiness. Set against the beginnings of British supremacy or the seas, the romance serves to focus into a. single kaleidoscope the birth of the empire and the world’s most extraordinary business organisation. “Lloyds of London” found her early struggles closely bound up with marine policies, and Jonathan Blake innovated the now famous procedure of insuring everything and anything. The impressive cast also features Sir

Guy Standing, C. Aubrey Smith and Virginia Field. Regent Theatre “Love from a Stranger” starring Ann Harding and Basil Rathbone will be screened finally at to-day’s matinee and again to-night at 8. There is also a first class supporting programme. TO-MORROW. “EDUCATING FATHER.” The members of The Jones family, appearing in “Educating Father”, new Fox picture at the Regent Theatre to-morrow resembled each othei’ enough to pass as relations. All have approximately ■ the same complexion, and require identical lighting while being photographed. Jed Prouty, Shirley Deane, Dixie Dunbar, Spring Byington, Kenneth Howell, June Carlson, George Ernest, Florence Roberts and Wiliam Mahon are featured in "Educating Father.” “CLARENCE.” Roscoe Karns the American doughboy in “Wings,” the first Paramount picture in which the funny man appeared, wears the same uniform in Paramount’s “Clarence,” the Booth Tarkington comedy which opens tomorrow at the Regent Theatre. The uniform was made to his order in 1927 and it still fits. Karns plays a recently discharged soldier who takes a job as handy man in a daffy household and winds up as mender of broken hearts. Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Eugene Pallette and Charlotte Wynters arc also in the cast. “HIDEAWAY GIRL” Four hit songs are included in “Hideaway Girl,” a musical mystery featuring Shirley Ross, Martha Raye and Robert Cummings, which begins on Saturday at the Regent" Theatre. A number was composed especially for Miss Raye by Sam Coslow, “Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Liszt.” Victor Young and Leo Robin composed “What Is Love?” while Berton Lane contributed “Two Birdies Up a Tree” and “Dancing Into Your Heart.” “Hideaway Girl” is the story of a girl suspected of a clever jewel robbery, who is forced to play the role of a stranger’s wife during a yacht party to avoid being implicated in a series of hilarious goingson. Love blooms between the two. “HER HUSBANDS SECRETARY” “Aunt Carrie Bodkins, the pest of San Fernandy,” is now on the screen. This famous radio commedienne (Minerva Urecal in real life,) has a comedy part in “Her- Husband’s Secretary), First National drama featuring Jean Muir, Warren Hull and Beverly Roberts, which opens on Saturday at the Regent Theatre.